Well next year it looks like I'll be set up for breeding with Rapunzel and Baskerville. I'm looking for some advice. What are the things I need to have going in and what recommendations do you have for products and such? I'm looking for an incubator recommendation and then also I'm looking at a 32 hatchling rack by boaphile plastics. Is this a good idea or would something smaller work? Then also for feeding purposes and shipping/ packaging what size of containers and such should I do that are cost effective but sturdy? Any and all recommendations are appreciated. I have looked into the details of breeding already and do have an idea of what to expect and have already set up two local pet stores as potential buyers of my common morphs to sell in their stores and I feel comfortable with how they treat their animals so I'm not worried about buyers just needing to know what all I need and brand recommendations going in to the endevor. Thanks everybody for the help.
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hatchling preperation
- Thread starter yojoe05
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Nanci
Alien Lover
The number one thing is make sure whatever rack you get is escape proof! I have five Reptile Basics Iris shoebox racks, holding 16 bins each. They told me it was escape proof. My first hatchling eve escaped! i recovered him, but it really scared me. So now I have either cardboard shims under the bins, or rubber shelf liner taped down to the shelf with foil tape. You want the bins to have friction when you slide them out. No gap.
32 is probably a good number. You have room for one or two clutches.
I buy deli cups from Superior Shipping. I like the white cups with clear lids. I use these both for feeding and for shipping.
Pro Kal (aka Twin-Pak) 8 oz White Pre- Punched 100 ct (.11 ea) T/W4-8P USD17.26 USD17.26
Pro Kal Lid (Poly Pro) aka Twinpak 4.5 " 100 ct (.08ea) T/C4-LID
These stand up to repeated openings and closings.
This is also where I buy shipping boxes. I use the 6 x 9 x 12.
It's so much easier, if you have room, to use big ramekins for water bowls. You can buy them cheap at Target They never spill. The babies have something to climb on.
I start them out on paper towels till after the first feeding, then go to CareFresh.
Start saving toilet paper tubes several months before the babies hatch. They make perfect hides when you squish them flat.
The babies go through a lot of pinks fast. One pack of 50 pinks feeds 16 babies three times- that's two weeks! I would order 100-200 reds, and add in some regular pinks if you plan on keeping the babies for any length of time. Generally babies are offered for sale after having fed, with no tricks, three consecutive times. You want to be selling babies that eat flawlessly.
I really like the mini-fridge type incubators. I've had good luck with my two. Each easily holds three clutches; four if you remove the shelf. They both heat and cool, so your eggs are safe if your AC goes out.
32 is probably a good number. You have room for one or two clutches.
I buy deli cups from Superior Shipping. I like the white cups with clear lids. I use these both for feeding and for shipping.
Pro Kal (aka Twin-Pak) 8 oz White Pre- Punched 100 ct (.11 ea) T/W4-8P USD17.26 USD17.26
Pro Kal Lid (Poly Pro) aka Twinpak 4.5 " 100 ct (.08ea) T/C4-LID
These stand up to repeated openings and closings.
This is also where I buy shipping boxes. I use the 6 x 9 x 12.
It's so much easier, if you have room, to use big ramekins for water bowls. You can buy them cheap at Target They never spill. The babies have something to climb on.
I start them out on paper towels till after the first feeding, then go to CareFresh.
Start saving toilet paper tubes several months before the babies hatch. They make perfect hides when you squish them flat.
The babies go through a lot of pinks fast. One pack of 50 pinks feeds 16 babies three times- that's two weeks! I would order 100-200 reds, and add in some regular pinks if you plan on keeping the babies for any length of time. Generally babies are offered for sale after having fed, with no tricks, three consecutive times. You want to be selling babies that eat flawlessly.
I really like the mini-fridge type incubators. I've had good luck with my two. Each easily holds three clutches; four if you remove the shelf. They both heat and cool, so your eggs are safe if your AC goes out.
MysticExotics
(formerly NWHeather)
I have the Animal Plastics hatchling 6qt rack (just ordered a second one today) and they have a pretty tight fit.
That said, I start my hatchling Cornsnakes in smaller bins though, because I have found they start eating sooner when in the smaller bins. I have small wooden racks from Jeff Mohr, that hold sandwich sized Take Along bins, as well as some that hold the rectangular Take Along bins made by a local guy.
I also use the same water bowls as pictured above. They are the perfect size for hatchlings, and as mentioned, double as hides. My babies love them!!
That said, I start my hatchling Cornsnakes in smaller bins though, because I have found they start eating sooner when in the smaller bins. I have small wooden racks from Jeff Mohr, that hold sandwich sized Take Along bins, as well as some that hold the rectangular Take Along bins made by a local guy.
I also use the same water bowls as pictured above. They are the perfect size for hatchlings, and as mentioned, double as hides. My babies love them!!